Famous quotes containing the words tomb and/or contained:
“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
“The woods were as fresh and full of vegetable life as a lichen in wet weather, and contained many interesting plants; but unless they are of white pine, they are treated with as little respect here as a mildew, and in the other case they are only the more quickly cut down.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)